THRISSUR: Sarath Prasad was removed from the post of DYFI District Secretary and from the CPM District Committee. The move is after the party took action in the audio tape controversy. Current DYFI treasurer Rossal Raj will become the new secretary.

Disciplinary action against Sarath was in the conversation he had about A.C. Moytheen MLA and M.K. Kannan. The allegations against the leaders were made in a five-year-old conversation Sarath had with DYFI district committee member Nibin Srinivasan, who was expelled from the party for alleging that there is corruption in cooperative institutions. It is not known who leaked this conversation. The CPM district committee had earlier decided to suspend Sarath from the party for one year. It was the state committee that decided to remove him from t

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